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<blockquote data-quote="jmden" data-source="post: 688690" data-attributes="member: 1742"><p>There are many tents that would fit that category. I just bought 2 Marmot Earlylights for my family for backpacking/sea kayaking trips: <a href="http://marmot.com/products/earlylight_2p?p=118" target="_blank">Earlylight 2P | Marmot Clothing and Equipment</a> With two large vestibules, a decent interior size and height and great ventilation (very key to staying comfortable in a tent when it's moist), 5lbs. 5oz. and still using fairly robust materials and quality construction, and it includes a foot print and gear loft which you would usually easily pay another $60-70 for. $229 and Marmot is one of the very best names out there. After looking at probably every tent out there with weight, a vestibule for each person and large side entrances as the basic tenets of the search, this is the tent I came up with. Are there lighter 2P tents? A few. But companies take more of your money for every ounce saved and you end up with a product that is often not as robust and won't last as long or take much abuse. This tent seemed the best balance of all aspects that I could find on the market.</p><p></p><p>Get a tent from a well known mountaineering firm, such as Marmot, North Face, Mountain Hardware, etc., and shy away from the typical places hunters tent to go such as Cabela's--just not the depth of quality in materials and construction and knowledge as top mountaineering companies such as Marmot have. Folks that go from mountaineering to hunting (seen this mentioned here several times) are aghast at the common quality of hunting gear at the typical hunting outlets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jmden, post: 688690, member: 1742"] There are many tents that would fit that category. I just bought 2 Marmot Earlylights for my family for backpacking/sea kayaking trips: [url=http://marmot.com/products/earlylight_2p?p=118]Earlylight 2P | Marmot Clothing and Equipment[/url] With two large vestibules, a decent interior size and height and great ventilation (very key to staying comfortable in a tent when it's moist), 5lbs. 5oz. and still using fairly robust materials and quality construction, and it includes a foot print and gear loft which you would usually easily pay another $60-70 for. $229 and Marmot is one of the very best names out there. After looking at probably every tent out there with weight, a vestibule for each person and large side entrances as the basic tenets of the search, this is the tent I came up with. Are there lighter 2P tents? A few. But companies take more of your money for every ounce saved and you end up with a product that is often not as robust and won't last as long or take much abuse. This tent seemed the best balance of all aspects that I could find on the market. Get a tent from a well known mountaineering firm, such as Marmot, North Face, Mountain Hardware, etc., and shy away from the typical places hunters tent to go such as Cabela's--just not the depth of quality in materials and construction and knowledge as top mountaineering companies such as Marmot have. Folks that go from mountaineering to hunting (seen this mentioned here several times) are aghast at the common quality of hunting gear at the typical hunting outlets. [/QUOTE]
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